Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Jackson, MS
NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2008, 2:06 AM CDT for Clay County, Webster County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2008, 2:06 AM CDT (07:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2008, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, MS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Clay County, MS, Webster County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 11:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2053 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KJAN 030705
SVRJAN
MSC025-155-030745-
/O.NEW.KJAN.SV.W.0310.080503T0706Z-080503T0745Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
206 AM CDT SAT MAY 3 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MONTPELIER...
* UNTIL 245 AM CDT
* AT 206 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EMBRY...OR 23 MILES
WEST OF MONTPELIER...AND MOVING EAST AT 43 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
6 MILES NORTH OF CLARKSON BY 215 AM CDT...
8 MILES NORTH OF CUMBERLAND BY 220 AM CDT...
MONTPELIER BY 235 AM CDT...
8 MILES NORTH OF PALA ALTO BY 245 AM CDT...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
HIGH WINDS CAN BRING DOWN TREES AND LARGE LIMBS RESULTING IN SERIOUS
INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE. EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN OUTDOORS
DURING SUCH STRONG WINDS...AND BE ESPECIALLY AWARE OF OLDER TREES.
LAT...LON 3380 8869 3370 8870 3360 8880 3358 8939
3374 8944 3374 8919 3375 8917 3377 8895
3382 8891 3382 8872
TIME...MOT...LOC 0706Z 256DEG 37KT 3369 8930
$$
BYB1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KJAN 030731
SVSJAN
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
231 AM CDT SAT MAY 3 2008
MSC025-155-030745-
/O.CON.KJAN.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-080503T0745Z/
CLAY MS-WEBSTER MS-
231 AM CDT SAT MAY 3 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 AM CDT
FOR NORTHERN WEBSTER AND NORTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTIES...
AT 231 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CUMBERLAND...OR 9
MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTPELIER...MOVING EAST AT 43 MPH.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3380 8869 3370 8870 3360 8880 3358 8939
3374 8944 3374 8919 3375 8917 3377 8895
3382 8891 3382 8872
TIME...MOT...LOC 0731Z 256DEG 37KT 3367 8903
$$
BYBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 57 min |
| May 2, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 53 min |
| May 2, 7:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 3 hr |
| May 2, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 44 min |
| May 2, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 65 min |
| May 2, 8:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Washington | 6 hr |
| May 2, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 55 min |
| May 2, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 60 min |
| May 2, 10:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 3 hr |
| May 2, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 41 min |
| May 2, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower, Washington | 40 min |
| May 3, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada, Leflore, Sunflower | 38 min |
| May 3, 12:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower, Washington | 36 min |
| May 3, 12:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Leflore | 33 min |
| May 3, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Washington | 45 min |
| May 3, 12:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore | 46 min |
| May 3, 12:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Grenada | 26 min |
| May 3, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 38 min |
| May 3, 1:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Sharkey, Yazoo | 66 min |
| May 3, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery, Webster | 52 min |
| May 3, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo | 52 min |
| May 3, 1:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Warren | 46 min |
| May 3, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Jefferson | 39 min |
| May 3, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Holmes, Montgomery | 49 min |
| May 3, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Warren, Yazoo | 48 min |
| May 3, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Madison, Yazoo | 44 min |
| May 3, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Jefferson, Warren | 44 min |
| May 3, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes | 42 min |
| May 3, 2:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Leake, Madison, Rankin, Scott | 54 min |
| May 3, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds, Jefferson | 46 min |
| May 3, 3:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Jefferson | 52 min |
| May 3, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston | 57 min |
| May 3, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin, Scott | 49 min |
| May 3, 3:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba | 48 min |
| May 3, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Hinds, Jefferson, Lincoln, Rankin and 1 more | 38 min |
| May 3, 3:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marion | 48 min |
| May 3, 4:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams, Franklin | 44 min |
| May 3, 4:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton, Scott | 38 min |
| May 3, 4:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Smith | 34 min |
| May 3, 4:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott, Smith | 31 min |
| May 3, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Simpson | 45 min |
| May 3, 4:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson | 43 min |
| May 3, 4:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis | 46 min |
| May 3, 4:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Newton, Scott, Smith | 33 min |
| May 3, 5:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Smith | 39 min |
| May 3, 5:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Simpson, Smith | 30 min |
| May 3, 5:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 52 min |
| May 3, 5:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 39 min |
| May 3, 5:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 49 min |
| May 3, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 33 min |
| May 3, 6:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 43 min |
| May 3, 6:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 31 min |
| May 3, 6:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 18 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.